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Tim Cook Says He Expects AirPods to Ship Over 'Next Few Weeks' in Email to Customer
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Have you tried any BT headphones with the AptX codec? I'm no audiophile and I am middle-aged (so my hearing isn't great from years of Walkman use in my teens and too many front row concerts attended), but I'm totally blown away by the last two pair of Plantronics BackBeat Pro headphones I have been using.
Even my oldest son (21) couldn't believe how great they sound, which is why I had to get a second pair, as he "borrowed" the first pair. They offer 24 hours of battery life and active noise cancelation (have worked great on several global flights).
This isn't a commercial for them - I bought them initially just for flying as I didn't want to pay the Bose tax for the QC35's and I've had bad experiences with a few Sony headsets. The Plantronics were priced low enough to take a shot with them.
Sure, there are cheap, bad sounding BT headphones, but that's no different than what is out there for cheap, bad sounding wired headphones.
the customer can't charge his 7 -- what is he talking about? if he needs always-on-always-charging use all-day-long (uhhh ok) why doesnt he use an adapter? or a pair of BT headphones which have been out for years?
sounds like entitled crybaby whining to me.
sounds like entitled crybaby whining to me.
I didn't like the customer's rhetoric myself. If you want my honest opinion, he shouldn't have bought a phone without a headphone jack if this causes such an issue for him. Granted, he was banking on an earlier release for the AirPods and that's probably why he purchased his iPhone 7 so soon. But I digress.
Why this whining? Just buy a bluetooth headphone ...I mean, it will probably take 50 years before Apple ships the AirPods within the iPhone box, but if you paid almost 1,000 dollars for a phone you can handle it.
This were never delayed. They were always announced as "Coming this fall". Fall ends on December 20th.
Problem I have is why are they prominent on their website. When you go to apple.com first page it loads talking about gifts and what is shown at the bottom of the screen? Something they have NO IDEA WHEN ITS READY! Take them down or move them as not to look foolish. Big fan but starting to be concerned. And by concerned I mean looking to move my very large investment in the company elsewhere.
They are acting like a company that has grown too large too fast. Ask yourself? How could you not have know there was a problem with the AirPods long before the intended launch date? And when they said back in October, sorry, we need just a little more time to make sure they are done right.....I call ******** or someone really f'd up.
And Tim's email today is also BS. Very vague. Wrong message. Should have been once in awhile we f up. And we did here.
Sorry.
They are acting like a company that has grown too large too fast. Ask yourself? How could you not have know there was a problem with the AirPods long before the intended launch date? And when they said back in October, sorry, we need just a little more time to make sure they are done right.....I call ******** or someone really f'd up.
And Tim's email today is also BS. Very vague. Wrong message. Should have been once in awhile we f up. And we did here.
Sorry.
I told yall THE AIRPODS ARE NOT COMING IN 2016. Don't buy the iPhone 7. But yall just can't help yourselves.
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Wrong, look at the comp. And comp is not wired connected BT sets. And 5 hrs plus 24 more in your pocket?? if thats not enough tell me what you this it should be? All week life?
"A few" means three or more, the actual dictionary definition of "a few" is, "not many but more than one." So, "a few" cannot be one, but it can be as low as two.
putting it in the "24 hour case" is still charging it dude. It only works for 5 hours.
You can't listen to music while is in the case lol, this is pure Apple marketing.
It functions like an extra battery....but I guess the high price already covers that.
I always hated Apple EarPods...like the lightning cable, they break so easily. Waiting for the reviews....or any ...gates.
these will not ship in 2016. at least to the masses. They may ship a few so Tim Cook does not like a jackass.... but yeah.... 2017 is the real launch for these. Even then expect to be a beta tester for a buggy product along with paying the exorbitant price.
No one is disputing the vast amount of headphones available. Many of us (my self included) have a set or two of noise canceling headsets. BUT the AirPods are a great IN-EAR portable set you can toss in you pocket, syncs across Apple devices, and are convenient as heck. Not the best sounding, but great everyday toss-around earphones.
Not only do we not know when they are coming, we still don't know why they are delayed. Things are probably really bad for Tim after Trump won
WRONG!
So, now you can look past the criticisms you were quoted on November 11. Listed below is what you stated. Glad to hear you can finally get over the "Hard plastic" in your ear.
@blairh quoted:
1. No inline controls.
2. No noise isolation.
3. No sweat/water resistance.
4. Allegedly sound just a touch better than the terrible free headphones Apple gives away with iPhone's.
5. Hard plastic in your ear.
I've been wanting these things ever since I got the EarPods bundled with my iPhone 5 in 2012, they fit perfectly sounded great. They were literally the only OPEN EAR earphones which didn't come from a shed in China around, I despise silicone tips or any sealing earphone. I just thought, I just wish they made a wireless version of these.
My patience is beginning to wane. I love this as a product and its been more exciting to me than any Mac or iPhone release for quite a while. I thought Apple worked out the bugs of mass production BEFORE they announced the product? Apple usually has a large stockpile of something before its announced. Why that was different with the AirPods I do not know, I'm not going to be an armchair expert here and pretend I understand the inner workings of a $600bn company as secretive as Apple, but I expected this release to be much, much smoother. This seemingly simple product appears to have quite a few issues while products an order of magnitude more complex like the Touchbar MacBooks shipped fine.
For a brand new product category, from Apple no less, this had to arrive with a bang. Not to mention, a lot of people were frustrated at the iPhone 7's lack of 3.5mm jack and were thinking of getting these, they may have bought the iPhone 7 with some faith they'd have wireless AirPods to go along with it very soon.
Come on, Tim.
My patience is beginning to wane. I love this as a product and its been more exciting to me than any Mac or iPhone release for quite a while. I thought Apple worked out the bugs of mass production BEFORE they announced the product? Apple usually has a large stockpile of something before its announced. Why that was different with the AirPods I do not know, I'm not going to be an armchair expert here and pretend I understand the inner workings of a $600bn company as secretive as Apple, but I expected this release to be much, much smoother. This seemingly simple product appears to have quite a few issues while products an order of magnitude more complex like the Touchbar MacBooks shipped fine.
For a brand new product category, from Apple no less, this had to arrive with a bang. Not to mention, a lot of people were frustrated at the iPhone 7's lack of 3.5mm jack and were thinking of getting these, they may have bought the iPhone 7 with some faith they'd have wireless AirPods to go along with it very soon.
Come on, Tim.
All these issues still remain. However at the same time I don't see anything on the horizon that will tempt me beyond the Epic Air's from JLab which aren't pegged until next February.
This is just the beginning, did you seriously expect an abrupt change? Airpods will improve and will become standard eventually
It's called talking to truth to power.
I suspect Tim Cook is surrounded by fawning lackeys and people paid such unimaginably vast sums that they daren't express an opinion of their own.
If -- ha! -- Tim Cook is a good CEO he'll welcome honestly expressed customer feedback.
For the supposed supply-expert, Apple has been increasingly disappointing in the last few years. The Apple Watch was first announced in September, then reannounced in February, with pre-orders in April and shipping of those preorders not till May or June in a lot of cases. The iPad Pro's killer feature was the Apple Pencil, which was not available for love or money until weeks, even months, after the launch of the iPad itself.
Now the same again. The courageous iPhone 7's killer feature is its lack of a 3.5mm port. All but the most slavish fanboys must see that the AirPods should have been released on Day 1 of the iPhone 7's release. Instead it was "sometime in October" then it became "not October but at some point in the future" and now, apparently, it's "a few weeks", whatever the hell that means.
This is amateur hour. Let's remember that Apple is the largest company of the world, with access to the brightest, most talented people in the world, and a pile of cash that makes Scrooge McDuck look like a benefits claimant.
This is not about headphones. It's about disappointment in a company I am increasingly struggling to admire.